"United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MP69-B2J : accessed 7 August 2017), Rebeca Riley in household of Charley N Riley, Beat 5, Wayne, Mississippi, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 138, sheet 7B, family 121, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 762; FHL microfilm 1,374,775.
"United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M43H-Z2Z : accessed 7 August 2017), Sarah Riley in household of Charlie Riley, Erata, Jones, Mississippi, United States; citing ED 91, sheet 7B, line 62, family 127, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 881; FHL microfilm 1,820,881.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Dessie by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Dessie: